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Tim Cook Putting His Stamp on Apple
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I think you should spend less time on the forums and offer your invaluable services as a consultant to
. Maybe then could grow into a real successful company 
http://hbr.org/2010/01/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-world/ar/1
You mention Jony Ive & Eddy Cue as next possible CEO candidates but you forgot to mention Forstall. He's young, wicked smart & equally capable I believe. After all, he is in charge of Apple's crown jewel, iOS.
Because Jobs is apple, and apple is Jobs. there is no way anyone can change that fact. if Tim is not Jobs, then Tim is not apple.
Jobs created apple and built it into a biggest tech empire which beats not only legendary Sony but Samsung, panasonic, ect on hardware sides. and beat or match Microft in software side.
Jobs should have lived a little longer to change the TV industry like he did with music, tablets and phones.
Well Tim Cook is a great guy. And backed up by the excellent 2nd line leadership Apple has, Im sure he'll do a good job. He cannot, and should not be compared to Steve Jobs. Their styles are different, but their visions are the same. Good job Mr. Cook. True Apple fans everywhere respect you.
Apple is screwed with this guy at the helm.
He's a marketing guy, not a product guy. When someone shows him a cool new feature for iOS and he responds with "and how is this going to help me sell more phones?" you have to know that we are screwed.
The difference between this guy and Jobs is that Jobs knew in the very fiber of his being that if you built the killer product, and did an awesome job of supporting it, the buyers would show up banging down your door. This guy is going to be busy answering to shareholders who want to squeeze better margins out of Apple operations.
He's a marketing guy, not a product guy. When someone shows him a cool new feature for iOS and he responds with "and how is this going to help me sell more phones?" you have to know that we are screwed.
The difference between this guy and Jobs is that Jobs knew in the very fiber of his being that if you built the killer product, and did an awesome job of supporting it, the buyers would show up banging down your door. This guy is going to be busy answering to shareholders who want to squeeze better margins out of Apple operations.
Absolutely, and there's likely a host of others, including talented people who are not even at Apple.
My main point is that Tim's biggest job at this point in Apple's history is being able to continue to attract the best and brightest people to work for the company in the absence of Steve. That's the only way to ensure a strong product pipeline beyond the 4 years that is already in place right now, and then eventually for someone for Tim to hand over the baton to years down the line. Apple for the most part has built its product pipeline internally and organically, rather than through acquisition (although they will acquire companies for their products like Siri, but they acquire much more selectively than say other tech giants like Google). To continue that model, they need an "A team" to do so, and can still live off of Steve's vision at least for the next few years until there's room for another product visionary to put his/her own stamp. Think of Apple during Steve Jobs as Apple 1.0, with Tim Cook's being Apple 1.1, and the next CEO after that to be Apple 2.0.
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I think if your post was made in 1985 and you were talking about John Sculley, then sure.
But Tim is not a marketing guy. He's an operations guy. He was the one responsible for helping Steve consolidate and streamline its supply chain when Steve first came back to Apple in the late 1990s.
He's also been effectively running the company on a day-to-day basis since 2009.
What you say may turn out to be right, but it's highly unlikely given what we've seen so far with Tim.
apple indulges in creative projects. every fiber of their raison detre is design and technology merging together.
i'm glad you were not chief visionary for the company.
Team
Addressing employees at "team members" was very common in Retail. We were always addressed as "team" in communications.
The idea, of course, was to inculcate the message that we're all on the same side, fighting for the same cause.
It's also rather condescending. A way for the .1% to address the 99.9% and make them feel like we're all together in this thing.
Addressing employees at "team members" was very common in Retail. We were always addressed as "team" in communications.
The idea, of course, was to inculcate the message that we're all on the same side, fighting for the same cause.
It's also rather condescending. A way for the .1% to address the 99.9% and make them feel like we're all together in this thing.
let me put it this way. Steve Wozniak was always the good boy. Steve Jobs was the bad guy. if Tim Cook going to be the good guy .... we're screwed.
Of course he has style and taste - he's gay after all!
You homosnob!
On an unrelated note, let me say that a CEO who addresses his employees as "Team" makes me want to barf. Teams compete--artists taps into their feelings and imagination to create something moving. One is the mindset of a generic CEO, the other was the mindset of Steve Jobs. I prefer the latter by far.
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Hey Team!!
We got a market lead and someone already planned out the next 4 years. Now it's time to relax and take some time off!
C'mon TEAM! Let's coast, y'all!! Heeee haw!!
Tim
I think this says more about you than him.
new? he has been doing that for apple for 10+ years basically, people are all doom and gloom at the moment. but the simple fact is the majority of people who have been creating such things as the iPad, the mac book air, the iPhone etc are probably all still there now.
steven didn't create these things, what he did was create the team that could create these ideas. amazing work steve, and no doubt apple will still be designing all these things.
The only bad thing i see happening is all the "steve job fanboys" having ago at cook simply because they will create the illusion of "steve wouldn't have done this, steve wouldn't have done that" and basically put steve on the pedestal and have a go at anyone who isn't jobs.
Good luck cook, I fully expect you to do well.
You won't be fired by the CEO now. You'll be fired by the VP. I hear Forstall and co can be pretty *******ish.
Steve Jobs put together a team of individuals that will carry on his vision and preserve his legacy. Cook is very likely doing exactly what Steve wanted him to do. The roadmap is set. I'm not worried.
Nothing except normal behavior
I don't see in its behavior anything that is not the normal way of doing of a good CEO.
Steve Jobs built a very good team and winning is business is a team game. it the way of Apple was functioning before which is not normal.
Steve Jobs made it happen, but in a very dysfunctional way. Now Apple will go on surprising us and pleasing us with terrific products like before except that these will be the result of a team effort.
One more thing.... this team is really good and one of the main effort of Tim Cook will be to keep that team work smoothly and be coherent.
I don't see in its behavior anything that is not the normal way of doing of a good CEO.
Steve Jobs built a very good team and winning is business is a team game. it the way of Apple was functioning before which is not normal.
Steve Jobs made it happen, but in a very dysfunctional way. Now Apple will go on surprising us and pleasing us with terrific products like before except that these will be the result of a team effort.
One more thing.... this team is really good and one of the main effort of Tim Cook will be to keep that team work smoothly and be coherent.
Read Jobs bio - even though he was a visionary in many respects, as Ive states, the company has many visionaries.
Jobs main failing was that he would take credit for others ideas.
Ive is the main visionary at Apple now.